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Simple Integral "Find what's wrong" question

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Question in attached picture.
Thanks for the help, kinda forgot the simple rules of splitting integrals.
All that came to mind was no dx attached to each new integral.

Also side question: if the prompt says "Evaluate the integral using a substitution prior to integration by parts." how do I approach that, especially since the tabular method is easily applicable to the derivative.

dsfsf.jpg
Question in attached picture.
Thanks for the help, kinda forgot the simple rules of splitting integrals.
All that came to mind was no dx attached to each new integral.

Also side question: if the prompt says "Evaluate the integral using a substitution prior to integration by parts." how do I approach that, especially since the tabular method is easily applicable to the derivative.

Appreciate it <3333333

"dx" is superfluous, anyway, so long as the context is clear.

Why do you suppose there is anything "wrong" with it? Really, though, just check the parentheses.

"Unique Answers Don't Care How You Find Them." - Many may have said it, but I hear it most from me.

dsfsf.jpg
Question in attached picture.
Thanks for the help, kinda forgot the simple rules of splitting integrals.
All that came to mind was no dx attached to each new integral.

Also side question: if the prompt says "Evaluate the integral using a substitution prior to integration by parts." how do I approach that, especially since the tabular method is easily applicable to the derivative.

Appreciate it <3333333

[tex]\int[/tex](f(x)+/-g(x))dx = [tex]\int[/tex]f(x)dx +/- [tex]\int[/tex]g(x)dx and [tex]\int[/tex]kf(x)dx = k[tex]\int[/tex]f(x)dx, for some constant k.
You need these two to do problems like your. One problem is that there are no dx's but there is another problem.

Last edited by Jomo; 12-06-2018 at 11:31 PM.

A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there. - Charles R. Darwin

dsfsf.jpg
Question in attached picture.
Thanks for the help, kinda forgot the simple rules of splitting integrals.
All that came to mind was no dx attached to each new integral.

Also side question: if the prompt says "Evaluate the integral using a substitution prior to integration by parts." how do I approach that, especially since the tabular method is easily applicable to the derivative.

Appreciate it <3333333

The statement will be correct if the square brackets on the RHS are removed.

I think it should be mentioned that the dx is not entirely irrelevant; many teachers will insist on it, though it is not nearly as important as the parenthesization in this example. So it may well be expected in the answer to this question.

It has several purposes, varying according to context:

merely identifying the variable with respect to which you are integrating;

(often) marking the end of the integrand;

making the connection to definite integrals as sums (in fact, sums (∫ = S) of small differences (d));

clarifying the fact that, as an antiderivative, the integral operates on (and undoes) a differential, so that ∫du = u;

making the dimensional analysis work out.

It becomes much more important in multiple integrals, and is not needed when you just write ∫f as opposed to ∫f(x); but teachers who insist on it do have good reason to do so.